Event
- Event ID
- 260
- Quality
- Description
A liquid hydrogen leak occurs in a steel plant on a 42000 l tank of liquid hydrogen. A sealing coupling was installed to stop the leak.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- leak no ignition
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Component involved
- LH2 tank (stationary)
- Failure mode
- leak, no ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2022
Facility
- Application
- Steel and metals industry
- Sub-application
- Steel metallurgy
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
LH2 tank
- Process temperature range [C]
- cryogenic temperature (below -50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- low to medium pressure (below 2 MPa)
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Emergency action
A sealing coupling was installed to stop the leak.
In-depth data
- Release type
- Liquid
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- ARIA
- Reference & weblink
Event description in the French database ARIA
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/4330/
(accessed December 2020)
